Awards

What are the ADIPEC Awards?

The ADIPEC Awards, a coveted honour in the energy industry, are designed to recognise the fresh, innovative perspectives needed to tackle the world’s most pressing energy challenges. The award categories honour those helping to shape the energy systems vital to everyday lives and livelihoods, their efforts contributing to making energy more accessible, affordable, secure and sustainable.

Evaluated under robust judging criteria by an enriched jury of global experts in decarbonisation, technology, finance and climate change, the winners will be announced at an exclusive ceremony held on 4 November 2024.

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Entries

21

Finalists

10

Jury Members

16

Selection Committee Members

29

Technical Committee Members

21

Awards finalist

Awards 2024 Sponsors

ADIPEC Awards sponsors

ADIPEC Awards at a glance

Awards 2023 Categories

Clean Energy Technology Innovation Of The Year

The award will recognise a company that has made a significant cleaner energy technology research and development announcement in 2022, which is now in the process of implementation.

Winner:
Carbon Clean: CycloneCC

Game-Changing Partnership Award

ADIPEC is an inclusive platform that enables collaboration, supporting the entire energy ecosystem and beyond to foster game-changing partnerships. This award aims to spotlight how industries are coming together to realise a cleaner energy future and finding ways to navigate political and economic challenges.

Winner:
ADNOC, Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC): Race to Net Zero: Landmark Clean Energy Partnership to Tackle Climate Crisis

Young Changemaker Of The Year

This award honours a young professional, born during or after 1993, who has made valuable changes within their organisation and is demonstrating strong potential to ascend to senior management, with the capacity to be a key contributor to the development of the industry and a pioneer in building a better energy future.

Winner:
Lee Kian Seng, Product Manager Technology Digital Solutions, PETRONAS

Decarbonisation At Scale Award

Implementing decarbonisation solutions at scale is an ongoing challenge in every sector. This award aims to recognise projects and initiatives that have demonstrated their ability to accelerate decarbonisation in any industry and have shown the potential to be implemented at scale.

Winner:
LanzaTech: Capturing Carbon. Creating Value

Transformative Hydrogen Project

As expectations rise for the energy industry to implement credible hydrogen solutions at scale, this award will recognise companies that have launched a significant green hydrogen project or joint venture.

Winner:
H2Pro: Breakthrough 95% Efficiency - Affordable Green Hydrogen Production at Scale

Developing Economies Energy Company Of The Year

Energy security is fundamental to ensuring that developing economies are able to maintain the economic development that will improve billions of lives over the coming decades. At the same time, the world is working towards achieving critical decarbonisation goals.

Winner:
PETRONAS: Innovative Technology Solution and Monetisation of Stranded High CO2 Fields in Developing Countries

Future Energy Workforce Development Program

A responsible energy industry still has a great need and many opportunities to engage and inspire the young talent required for the energy transition to succeed. This includes new messaging, new value propositions and operating models to engage and inspire tomorrow’s changemakers, helping them drive transformational progress.

Winner:
ADNOC, SLB: Energy Futures Initiative: Pioneering Innovation in Future Talent Development

Leader Of Change: Passionate Driver Of Progress

Spotlighting an individual, not limited to the energy industry, for outstanding leadership in driving responsible cross-sector action to secure a more sustainable energy future. The winner will have a proven track record of advocating game-changing partnerships and coordinating key stakeholders in the private sector, public sector, and NGOs to deliver credible energy transition strategies that have a truly global impact.

Winner:
Ernest J. Moniz, CEO and President, EFI Foundation, 13th U.S. Secretary of Energy

Awards Jury

His Excellency
Suhail Mohamed AI Mazrouei

Minister of Energy and Infrastructure United Arab Emirates

His Excellency
Tarek EI Molla

Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Arab Republic of Egypt

Fatema Al Nuaimi

ADIPEC Awards Chair
EVP Downstream Industry, Marketing and Trading Communications ADNOC Group

Lorenzo Simonelli

Chairman & CEO Baker Hughes

Vicki Hollub

President & CEO Occidental

Dr. Pratima Rangarajan

CEO Climate Investment

Awards Jury

Dr John Sfakianakis

Professorial Fellow University of Cambridge

Proscovia Nabbanja

CEO Uganda National Oil Company Limited

Samantha Gross

Director - Energy Security and Climate Initiative
Fellow - Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution

Vicki Knott

CEO and Co-Founder CruxOCM

Technical Committee

Emmanuel Pradie

VP CO2 Customer Line, OneTech TotalEnergies

Isabelle Capaldi-Lureau

Clean H2 - Global Lead Negotiator TotalEnergies

Zakeyya ALmoosa

Deputy Managing Director TotalEnergies UAE Services

Ashish Rawal

Energy Transition Lead – AMEC (Africa, Middle East and Caspian) Region Subsea7

Magalie Lemaire

Senior Vice President Business, Gas and Planning TotalEnergies EP UAE

Bettina Karsh

Executive Vice President Human Resources Cepsa

Yoshihiko Kurokawa

General Manager – Technical Planning & Coordination Unit INPEX Corporation

M ISKANDAR B BAKERI

Head, Group Technical Solutions, Project Delivery & Technology PETRONAS

Chokri Benamor

Corporate Vice President, QHSE and Oman Operations National Energy Services Reunited (NESR)

Technical Committee

Dr Montasir Qasymeh

Professor, Electrical Engineering Abu Dhabi University

Mark Anderson

Chief Acceleration Officer & TechX Director Net Zero Technology Centre

Atif Rabbani

Regional Technology Head – Digital E&P Halliburton

Thomas Boesen

Vice President Middle East Borealis

Ing. Jiří Hájek, MBA

CEOI Chairman of the Board of Directors Orlen UniCRE a.s.

Scott Watters

Executive VP Taqa Well Completions

Wael Amin

Head of HSE Kuwait Energy Egypt

Dr Saeed Alhassan

Associate Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering Khalifa University of Science & Technology

Ryan Edwards

Director of Climate Policy Oxy

Technical Committee

Elie Lahoud

Chief Operating Officer, Engineering & Construction Petrofac

Rajesh Sharma

Global Director Strategy, Digital and Energy Transition Solutions Schneider Electric

Adel Al Shaaya

Director Drilling, Well Services Mubadala Energy

Pierre Leretz

Regional Managing Director, Process Industries, Southeast Asia, New Zealand & Australia (SEANZA) Region ABB

Katherine Wallgren

Asset Development Manager Oxy

Abhay Bhargava

Vice President– Energy & Environment & Industrial Practice Frost & Sullivan, Middle East, Africa and South Asia

Mark Litke

Chief Commercial Officer Cumulus Digital Systems

Ronald Uchil

Senior Vice President Corporate Excellence & HR Gerab National Ent LLC

Widad Haddad

Vice President & General Manager, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen & Lebanon Emerson Automation Solutions

Technical Committee

Hiroshi Hagiwara

Chief Technical Representative Japan Oil Development Co., Ltd (JODCO)

Selection Committee

Norhayati Hashim

Head of Technology Research and Chief Executive Officer PETRONAS Research Sdn Bhd (PRSB)

Amine El Hamzaoui

Director, Strategy and Partnerships Masdar

Taher N. Hamid

President ExxonMobil Iraq and UAE

Gu Mengzhe

Managing Director & President CNPC Abu Dhabi

Afaf Zainalabedin

Acting Deputy Chief Executive Human Resources and Corporate Services & Chief Financial Officer Bapco Energies

Elias Kassis

President Total E&P UAE and TotalEnergies Country Chair in UAE TotalEnergies

Jon Newbery

President and General Manager UAE OXY

Giuseppe Ricci

Chief Operating Officer Energy Evolution Eni S.p.A.

Zainub Noor

Director - Scouting & Innovation Halliburton

Selection Committee

Benjamin Beberness

SVP, Industry Business Unit General Manager Aspen Technology, Inc

Peter Zeilinger

Senior Vice President, MEA OMV

Salem Ashoor

General Manager and Chief Representative BP

Ahmad Salem

SVP Commercial & Business Development AIQ

Khalid Bin Hadi

Managing Director, Oman
Head of Government Affairs UAE & Middle East Siemens Energy

Our winners by years

Leader Of Change: Passionate Driver of Progress

Ernest J. Moniz CEO and President EFI Foundation 13th U.S. Secretary of Energy

Clean Energy Technology Innovation Of The Year

Carbon Clean: CycloneCC

Game-Changing Partnership

ADNOC, Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC): Race to Net Zero: Landmark Clean Energy Partnership to Tackle Climate Crisis

Young Changemaker Of The Year

Lee Kian Seng Product Manager Technology Digital Solutions PETRONAS

Decarbonisation At Scale

LanzaTech Capturing Carbon Creating Value

Transformative Hydrogen Project

H2Pro Breakthrough 95% Efficiency - Affordable Green Hydrogen Production at Scale

Developing Economies Energy Company Of The Year

PETRONAS Innovative Technology Solution and Monetisation of Stranded High CO2 Fields in Developing Countries

Future Energy Workforce Development Program

ADNOC, SLB Energy Futures Initiative: Pioneering Innovation in Future Talent Development

Breakthrough research of the year

The University of Kansas, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), MicroSilicon Inc. and EOG Resources Inc.: Smart microchip proppants technology for precision diagnostics of hydraulic fracture networks